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25 August 2014

Scope to participate in upcoming ALPSP International Conference Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope), a leading provider of knowledge services and a Quatrro Global Services company, has announced its participation in the ALPSP International Conference to be held at Park Inn Hotel and Conference Centre, London Heathrow, from September 10 – 12, 2014. Deborah Harman, Associate Vice President, Business Development, will represent Scope at ALPSP 2014. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Frankfurt StoryDrive searching for revolutionaries in the media business Under the title "Hug the Alien", the all-media platform Frankfurt StoryDrive is looking for the revolutionaries of storytelling. Anyone can apply who wants to turn the media world on its head – or at least move it forward – with their idea, vision, project, (narrative) concept, service, business model or technology. At the pitching event "Hug the Alien", the three most convincing candidates will be given the chance to present their visions to approximately 400 participants at StoryDrive. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Brill set to launch Chinese version of corporate website at Beijing Book Fair Scholarly publisher Brill is set to launch a Chinese version of their corporate website – brill.com/cn – at the Beijing Book Fair. Now available in Simplified Chinese, the website allows Brill to better serve the Chinese-speaking research and academic library communities. Users can choose between the English and Chinese version of brill.com by using the flag icons on the upper-right-hand corner of the site. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Kareo to discuss emerging technology at UBM Medica's Practice Rx conference in Philadelphia Kareo Inc., a provider of cloud-based medical office software and services for small medical practices, will be participating in UBM Medica's Practice Rx conference, taking place September 19-20, 2014 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In a session titled, 'The Essential Role for Technology in Improving Patient Care,' Kareo's Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Tom Giannulli will detail the steps that physicians who are interested in a better future must embrace. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme HARRASSOWITZ announces 2014 Charleston Conference Scholarship winner HARRASSOWITZ, a global full-service subscription agent and bookseller, has awarded the 2014 Charleston Conference Scholarship to Charlotte Roh, Scholarly Communication Resident Librarian at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Ms. Roh was awarded the $1,000 scholarship to attend the conference, which takes place November 5 - 8 in Charleston, South Carolina. More Search for more news in this Category Search for more news in this Theme Latest edition of Blogspeak now online The latest edition of Blogspeak is now online. Featured are: Stevan Harnad (Crowd-Sourced Peer Review: Substitute or supplement for the current outdated system?); Angela Cochran (The Mystery of a "Partial" Impact Factor); Joe Wikert (A business model I'm sorry we'll never see); Rick Anderson (Asserting Rights We Don't Have: Libraries and "Permission to Publish" | Peer to Peer Review); and Joseph Esposito (The Virtue of Rumor and Groundless Speculation). Blogspeak includes blog posts relevant to the publishing industry, particularly STM publishing. Subscribers are invited to participate in the latest edition of Blogspeak Here. You are receiving this email newsletter as part of your Knowledgespeak membership. You can unsubscribe instantly from any of our email newsletters by clicking here.

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